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Where did you get your numbers? I'm so confused because the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest. It really just seems l

Where did you get your numbers? I'm so confused because the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest. It really just seems like you hate dogs. > [...] Dogs kill 25 thousand people a year I don't see it in the paper and it's a HUGE discrepancy. Do you mean globally? Again where did you even get that number? The ONLY reference I see is this from a CDC paper [1]: > From 1979 to 1994, dog attacks resulted in 279 deaths to humans in the United States, resulting in an average of 17 to 18 deaths per year. Sooo... Less than 20 deaths per year, up-to 21 in the worst case estimate, in a country (USA) where ~34 million households have dogs. I'm seriously perplexed, dawg. Did you read the paper or just link to it assuming no one will even skim it? [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9182209/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9182209/

jjcon 5y ago
> the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest. The paper was part of my edit just looking at the 4.5 million attacks in the USA alone (where rabies is essentially gone) to point out that it isn’t just rabies that makes them unsafe. Here you can read about the 25k deaths: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36320744 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36320744
- codeyperson 5y ago
  > Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
- rubyn00bie 5y ago
  So you used an "estimate" as fact omitting that it's an estimate, from a BBC click-bait article, that offers NO citations. Pretty damn disingenuous, I think you should feel some shame for intentionally lying.
trentgreene 5y ago
I'd bet that high number of households that have dogs is one reason we have lower rates of dog related injuries. Well fed pets behave quite different to street dogs

jjcon 5y ago

> the paper you linked doesn't seem to support what you're saying in the slightest. The paper was part of my edit just looking at the 4.5 million attacks in the USA alone (where rabies is essentially gone) to point out that it isn’t just rabies that makes them unsafe. Here you can read about the 25k deaths: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36320744 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-36320744

codeyperson 5y ago
> Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
rubyn00bie 5y ago
So you used an "estimate" as fact omitting that it's an estimate, from a BBC click-bait article, that offers NO citations. Pretty damn disingenuous, I think you should feel some shame for intentionally lying.

trentgreene 5y ago

I'd bet that high number of households that have dogs is one reason we have lower rates of dog related injuries. Well fed pets behave quite different to street dogs